‘Verification should be carried out in person’ My friend at this point said ‘I can’t, can you do it please Moira?’, and so I did it.” The GP explained that “they don’t come out any more to certify death, that you have to do it yourself on a smartphone”, she said. Moira Evans, a friend of the widow who was there at the time and has spoken to The Telegraph, said: “He then sent a link to a video chat… ‘hold the camera to the dead body’. But when the GP phoned back, more than one and a half hours later, he said he would not be coming to the house.
His wife, who had been caring for him at home, called her local GP and was told the doctor would “be in touch shortly”. The patient, who was 80 and had been dying from cancer, passed away at home shortly after 4pm on a weekday earlier this month.
An elderly widow was forced to certify her husband’s death via video call after a GP said they “ don’t come out any more”.
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